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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the elephant dance?
(a) Attracting more elephants to the herd.
(b) Mating.
(c) Keeping hunters away.
(d) It makes the clearing larger.

2. Who is plotting to kill Teddy's family?
(a) Rikki.
(b) The tailorbirds.
(c) Chuchundra.
(d) Nag and Nagaina.

3. What does Rikki-Tikki-Tavi think of being a house mongoose?
(a) He doesn't care about it either way.
(b) He hates it.
(c) It makes him sad.
(d) He loves it.

4. When does Petersen mean when he tells Little Toomai "When you have seen the elephants dance"?
(a) Someday soon.
(b) Every night at dusk.
(c) Never.
(d) Every morning at dawn.

5. How does Kotick get other seals to come to the new summer vacation place that he finds?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Hundreds of thousands.
(d) Shouts of joy.

6. Who takes Little Toomai into the jungle for the elephant dance?
(a) Petersen.
(b) Pudmini.
(c) Big Toomai.
(d) Kala Nag.

7. How many seals spend their time at Novastoshnah in the summer?
(a) 20,000.
(b) Between 40,000 and 50,000.
(c) About 15,000.
(d) Between 4,000 and 5,000.

8. What doesn't Kotick know about the Sea Cow?
(a) They can't see.
(b) They can't swim.
(c) They can't talk.
(d) They aren't alive anymore.

9. How many eggs does Rikki find in the melon patch?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifty-five.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty-five.

10. When does Sea Catch comes to Novastoshnah?
(a) Every fall.
(b) Every summer.
(c) Every winter.
(d) In the spring.

11. Little Toomai does not want to go home while waiting for the elephant dance, even though he is what?
(a) Hungry.
(b) Hot.
(c) Tired.
(d) Cold.

12. Who grows up to be the namesake for Chapter Four?
(a) Sea Catch.
(b) Kotick.
(c) Kerick.
(d) Matkah.

13. Who is Chapter Five named after?
(a) A cobra.
(b) A mongoose.
(c) A bird.
(d) A seal.

14. Where does Nagaina hide her eggs?
(a) In the grass.
(b) The melon patch.
(c) In the tree.
(d) The flower garden.

15. Little Toomai goes to the elephant dance, even though he is supposed to be watching who?
(a) Petersen.
(b) Mowgli.
(c) Kala Nag.
(d) Pudmini.

Short Answer Questions

1. What or who is Keddah?

2. Who is the first character Kotick sees after he finds the new country and arrives back at Novastoshnah?

3. How does Rikki-Tikki-Tavi end up in Segowlee?

4. What color is Karait?

5. What does the name Kala Nag mean?

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